Le Tumulte Noir: Portfolio box: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Cloth clamshell portfolio box for “Le Tumulte Noir” by Paul Colin. The beige colored box is shaped and opens like a book. Three side edges, top, right, and bottom, are solid red and the “spine” is beige with a red box in at the top with black text “Le Tumulte Noir, Paul Colin.” There is no text on the front or back cover.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: January 1927
• Created by: Paul Colin, French, 1892 - 1985
• Subject of: Le Revue Nègre, French, 1925 - 1926
• Illustrated by: Jean Saudé, French, 1872 - 1931
• Printed by: Henri Chachoin
• Owned by: André Leon Talley, American, 1948 - 2022
• Type: portfolios (groups of works)
• Type: portfolios (containers)
• Medium: cloth on cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W x D (closed): 20 1/2 × 13 3/4 × 7/8 in. (52.1 × 34.9 × 2.2 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (opened): 20 1/2 × 28 3/8 × 7/8 in. (52.1 × 72.1 × 2.2 cm)
• Place printed: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Caricature and cartoons
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Stereotypes
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2024.85.4.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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